D&RGW Heavyweight Passenger Cars

[GN goat kid]

Hello,

I'm trying to find information about D&RGW heavyweight passenger cars (including car details and paint schemes) in the transition era. Does anyone have good references or publications?

Thanks,

GH goat kid

[RR_Mel]

Check out this link.

 

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsList.aspx?id=DRGW&cid=7

 

 

 

Mel

 

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

 

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[mlehman]

Jim Eager included a pretty extensive section (pages 21-27) of pics of heavyweight cars in his "Rio Grande Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment" (Morning Sun, 1996). Most pics are from the early to mid-60s, but there are nice pics from the 50s in a few cases. There are also a few pics of MOW equipment made from older heavyweights that may be of some use.

Jackson Thode also wrote a valuable book, "A Century of Passenger Trains ...And then Some" (Rocky Mountain RR Club, 1972, Rev. 2001). While many of the pics are less than optimal, there's a lot of useful info in it.

[GN goat kid]

Thanks Mike,

I'll try to get a copy of these refs.

-m

[7j43k]

Here's a great source for links to photos of passenger cars (including DRGW):

 

http://passcarphotos.info

 

 

Ed

[ATSFGuy]

What time period of the DRGW are you modeling?

[riogrande5761]

Aside from Jim Eagers Rio Grande Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipement, which I own and highly recommend, there is also Rio Grande Diesels Vol 3, (I also own) which has a pretty extensive chapter on passenger equipment.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Diesels-Pictorial-History/dp/0930742184

 

[GN goat kid]

Transition era.

 

[mlehman]

Virtually everything cited so far has good coverage of passenger traffic and cars in the transition era on the Rio Grande.